6th Annual City of Water Day Festival

Jun 122013
 
6th Annual City of Water Day Festival

On Saturday, July 20th, thousands from the Tri-State region will make their way to beautiful Governors Island, NY and Liberty State Park, NJ for the 6th Annual City of Water Day Festival. City of Water Day is a FREE day of entertainment, education & adventure for the whole family celebrating the potential of our waterfront! Take a FREE trip from Governors Island over to one of the most magnificent waterfront parks, Liberty State Park! It is the only opportunity you will have this year to do this! We are recruiting volunteers to assist with the events at Governors Island and … Read More

CITIZEN SCIENCE ENGAGEMENT FELLOWS

May 042013
 
CITIZEN SCIENCE ENGAGEMENT FELLOWS

The Citizen Science Engagement Fellows program is a collaboration between Citizen Science and Bard Center for Civic Engagement focused on identifying and organizing civic engagement experiences for first-years during the January term.  Engagement Fellows are instrumental in designing opportunities to explore concepts of community service, civic engagement and science education. Job Responsibilities Fellows will begin working with the Associate Director for Bard Center for Civic Engagement remotely in the summer.   Fellows begin researching educational activities in the summer.  During the fall semester, Fellows coordinate programs for first-years and plan the January collaborations with five local school districts.  Programs range from … Read More

Conservation Programs Internship

Apr 302013
 
Conservation Programs Internship

Title: Conservation Programs Intern Hours: 30 to 40 hours per week with flexibility Pay Status: $5,000 Stipend Site Supervisors: Marissa Codey and Heidi Bock Application Closing Date: Open until filled. To Apply: Submit cover letter, resume and references to Heidi@clctrust.org. Internship Summary: The Columbia Land Conservancy (CLC) is a nonprofit organization working to conserve the farmland, forests, wildlife habitat, and rural character of Columbia County, strengthening connections between people and the land. CLC is offering a summer internship opportunity to assist staff with our agricultural programming and land conservation efforts. The ideal candidate should have an interest in conservation and … Read More

Omega Seasonal Positons Open

Apr 302013
 
Omega Seasonal Positons Open

Are you interested in bringing health and healing to individuals and our world? Are you looking to bring more joy and meaning to your life? Would you love to be part of an active learning community? Then join the hundreds of people who make up Omega’s seasonal staff. As a seasonal staff member, you have the opportunity to explore your own self-development while participating in our staff education program, which is based on Omega’s Learning Paths. You can also practice work as service, which can help transform the lives of our workshop participants and your own life—all while living in … Read More

New York Campus Compact Now Accepting Applications for 2013-2014 AmeriCorps VISTA Members

Apr 302013
 
New York Campus Compact Now Accepting Applications for 2013-2014 AmeriCorps VISTA Members

  AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) is one of many national service programs administered by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS).  For over 40 years, it has been at the forefront of building capacity of communities to fight poverty.  VISTA members devote a year of their lives to challenge poverty’s root causes. They achieve this by mobilizing volunteers and local resources and by increasing the capacity of individuals in low-income neighborhoods to become more self-reliant and make positive changes.  Although most VISTAs nationwide serve in human service agencies, Campus Compact has pioneered the use of this … Read More

Bard Model UN Oxfam Hunger Banquet

Apr 292013
 
Bard Model UN Oxfam Hunger Banquet

TONIGHT, Bard Model UN will be hosting their first Oxfam Hunger Banquet simulation. The purpose of this simulation is to raise awareness among the Bard student population about hunger issues present in the world, and raise funds to support groups fighting against poverty and world hunger. Each member will randomly draw a ticket that will divide them into groups representing the top 15%, middle 35%, and the lower 50% income groups of the global population. Those distributed into the top 15% will receive a large meal, while the middle 35% will receive rice and beans, and the lower 50% only … Read More

  •  April 29, 2013
  •   Event

Government and Public Service Career Day

Apr 222013
 
Government and Public Service Career Day

Career Development Office, CDO Campus Center 201 ■ (845) 758-7539 ■ cdo@bard.edu ■ www.bard.edu/cdo – Government and Public Service Career Day  Sponsored by the Mid-Hudson Career Consortium in collaboration with the Bard College Career Development Office   The Career Development Office has arranged shuttle service to and from the event. Seating is limited. If you would like to reserve a seat on the shuttle, please email cdo@bard.edu ASAP. When: Thursday, April 24, 2013, 1:00 PM Where: Roosevelt Estate Hyde Park, Wallace Center 1:00 – 1:15 Keynote Address 1:20 – 2:30 Career Professionals Panel 2:30 – 2:45 Break 2:45 – 3:30 … Read More

2013 Essay Contest Winners

Apr 172013
 

The Bard Center for Civic Engagement announces the 2013 Essay Contest winners on the topic: What does it mean to be human: freedom and constraint in the year 2013.  With numerous submissions from Bard’s network of institutions, this year’s essays touched on themes from Miltonic liberty in America to human trafficking in Turkmenistan. First place winners hailed from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, the American University of Central Asia (Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic), and Smolny College/Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University (Russia). All first place winners will have the opportunity to present their essays at Smolny’s student conference scheduled later this month in St. Petersburg.  Contest runners up represent most of Bard’s partner institutions. Please … Read More

Thoughts on the Human Rights meeting at ECLA

Apr 172013
 
Thoughts on the Human Rights meeting at ECLA

The meeting brought together a very engaged, and diverse, group of people teaching and working on human rights, and I think we all experienced how vastly different our understandings of that term can be. Interestingly, this did not produce tension or confusion, but instead a very open and inquisitive set of exchanges. They followed two separate paths, one related to research and the other to teaching. On the research side, we discovered that there were a small number of common axes of interest, including (1) the history (particularly colonial and imperial) of human rights questions, (2) media and freedom of … Read More

  •  April 17, 2013
  •   News

Long Island Civic Engagement Table Movement Building Fellowship Program

Apr 142013
 
Long Island Civic Engagement Table Movement Building Fellowship Program

The Long Island Civic Engagement Table (LICET) is thrilled to announce its 2013 Movement Building Fellowship Program, a five-month fellowship program for young people who are interested in exploring a career in community and electoral organizing and contributing to the participation of immigrants, African-Americans, and Latinos in the American democratic process. Fellows will be placed to work in specific communities with a high concentration of Latino, African-American, immigrant, and working class residents. Participants will receive training in the skills of community and electoral organizing from the staff of LICET and its core organizations. It’s a phenomenal professional opportunity; most of … Read More

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